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Tapped? >> again, joe, you know, when youre talking about what the president said on twitter, he is only dealing in 140 character tweets. >> tu it to the next level. >> general clapper -- >> lets go to the next level and if he did know what he was talking about, he would have said the fisa court ordered these. im asking you as we take it to the next level, and agree that he was ignorant in what he said in his tweets, if you take to the next level, then just a question about the fisa court. is th...

Brian: when james clapper came out and said im national intelligence director if somebody wiretapped the trump tower i would know about it and it didnt happen. >> he actually didnt say it that way. he chose his words very carefully. steve: semantic. >> he said if somebody got a fisa warrant about this i would know about testimony the president doesnt need a fisa warrant. the statute authorizes the president to bypass fisa. and quite frankly, brian, we are all skeptical of anything james clapper ...

Thats a federal crime, and so when he sees this type of behavior that this targeting has been going on, i think hes acting with some emotion here, and he obviously likes to do it by tweet. im not so sure thats the best way for him to communicate very serious issues like this, but i do think that he feels passionate about it. >> now i do think that what the obama spokesperson said was that neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. is there...

At the end of that, kislyak went back to moscow, sent them a cable, sent them, you know, whatever, an e-mail, which was picked up by the nsa in which he basically notified moscow about his talks with flynn. so basically moscow knew that the conversation with flynn was about the sanctions or included in the discussion about the sanctions. this is what the intelligence community thought. so when vice president-elect pence and other administration officials appear on television and make these publi...

Provocations with iran to that recent missile test by north korea, which he commented on to some extent today. so, this comes i think at a tough time. and the fact that he is losing this key position certainly significant. but, joy, as you point out, there are still a lot of questions. given that, nbc news has confirmed that the acting a.g. informed the trump white house late last month when she thought michael flynn was potentially subject to blackmail. the question becomes why now, why did the...

He goes on to talk about his honorable military service and, in fact, he had a stellar career as an aide to general mccrystal. he was very well regarded until he was promoted ironically by general clapper to be the head of defense intelligence agency. and by all reports, once he took over that job, he changed from the man that they had known in the field who had done so much in combat duty and had been a really star intelligence officer. i do want to hasten to add that it was kristen welker who ...

Officials appear on television and make these public statements saying that had spoken to flynn and categorically said the sanctions issue was not discussed, for people like john brennan, cia director at the time, james clapper, the dni, the director of national intelligence at the time, and sally yates who was deputy attorney general at the time, they knew this was basically -- that the russians thought they maybe had something lynn. by going to the white house, trump white house which is what ...

Discussed, for people like john brennan, cia director at the time, james clapper, the dni, the director of national intelligence at the time, and sally yates who was deputy attorney general at the time, they knew this was basically -- that the russians thought they maybe had something on flynn. by going to the white house, trump white house which is what they wanted to do but which comey initially did not want them to do, the fbi director, they were hoping to basically defuse the ability of the ...

General clapper, to be the head of defense intelligence agency and by all reports, once he took over that job, he changed from the man that hay had known in the field who had done so much in combat duty and had been a really star intelligence officer. i do want to hasten to add it was kristen welker who first broke the story, i happen to be preparing for this broadcast. so i was the beneficiary of her brilliant reporting and also her colleagues peter alexander, the whole team, halliethis effort ...

At the end of that, kislyak went back to moscow, sent them a cable, sent them, you know, whatever, an e-mail, which was picked up by the nsa in which he basically notified moscow about his talks with flynn. so basically moscow knew that the conversation with flynn was about the sanctions or included in the discussion about the sanctions. this is what the intelligence community thought. so when vice president-elect pence and other administration officials appear on television and make these publi...